
Guide to Living with Your Parents
Scratch that. Best not to leave footprints either.
Scratch that. Best not to leave footprints either.
What if you just need more time to have a look around?
Is it because linen clothes feel a tad bit more elegant than jeans?
Every spring, the flowers unrobed themselves from their long green stalks, like indigo flags declaring the end of the winter—and their own ability to survive it.
I wonder if two-year-olds can feel lonely.
Utah has plenty of rocks—but not a single pebble seemed to be crying out.
There’s always someone to wave to.
I can hear their little terrier skitter across the floor or jump off the couch with an adorable thud.
Grief docks in your life like a sail in a harbor.
It finally dawned on me that if I didn’t look like Tina Turner by now, it was probably not going to happen ever.
But when I was sixteen, I moved to northern Michigan, where it starts snowing at Halloween and stops whenever God wants it to.
Spoiler alert: I get lost in Meijer.
It’s a shame that college is inaccessible to some because of financial situations, because when done right, we get so much more out of our tuition than a phone-number-sized bill and a great time on the Calvin rock wall.
We always returned to our mother beaming, holding up the objective of our mission.